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Affirmative action has long been controversial. Proponents say it’s a way to address historical discrimination. On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in two cases to strike down race as a factor in admissions processes.The decision's impact will be tough to measure in nine states, including Arizona, that already bar public universities from considering race in admissions.Since 2010, Arizona hasn’t allowed public universities to consider race. But private universities were still able to, to an extent.

I’m breathing deeply as I write this. What I’m writing about is charged. I feel this energy in my body. It’s a heat in my throat and a rumbling in my belly. It’s an intensity that’s frustrated that…

SEATTLE — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday added caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws, becoming the first U.S. city to ban caste discrimination and the first in the world to pass such a law outside South Asia.

Lexipol, a little-known private company based in Orange County that over the past two decades has quietly become one of the most influential forces in U.S. policing, writing policy statements for many police departments.

Gugulethu Moyo is publicly accusing the board of Tuscon's Jewish History Museum of racism and sexism — and the board is threatening to sue her.

Constitutional scholars Randy Barnett and Carol Anderson discuss how notions of gun ownership have changed -- and not changed -- since the founding of the country.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jay Caspian Kang and William Garcia-Medina on the complex issues surrounding race relations within Asian and Latino communities and movements for Black Lives.

Where do our minds live? A simple, scientific response would be to say our minds live in our brains. But Harvard psychologist Mahzarin Banaji says we should not think of our minds as being solitary.

Conversations about cultural property usually revolve around questions of ownership, conservation, national patrimony and public access. From a legal perspective, the origins and provenance of individual artworks or artifacts are of primary importance. Yet from

Protesters in Baltimore pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and hurled it into the city's Inner Harbor on Saturday night, adding to the list of monuments toppled during nationwide demonstrations against racism and police brutality.

The day that a white mob came to Greenwood Avenue in Tulsa, Okla., Viola Fletcher was just 7 years old.

A new report documents the lack of Latino stories in media and entertainment. The Texas congressman warns that underrepresentation allows the ugliest stereotypes to hold sway.

The photos surface after an officer with the Aurora Police Department reported them to the internal affairs unit. The interim police chief calls them reprehensible.

In 1990, Yusef Salaam was one of the five boys wrongly convicted in the so-called Central Park jogger case. They weren't exonerated until 2002. Salaam tells his story in Better, Not Bitter.

The Gone, But Not Forgotten event aims to unite Black women and encourage them to raise their voices. "I want us to learn how to protect each other," organizers said.

The Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.

Kimberlé Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum started the #SayHerName campaign to bring awareness to often invisible names of Black women who have been targets of law enforcement.

Defense attorneys for eight of 19 indicted APD officers say they were following orders when they used force against 2020 protesters. So far, there are 14 lawsuits against the city for injuries suffered during those confrontations.

Mayor London Breed said the funds would be reallocated over two years to address stark inequities in housing, education, health and economic opportunities faced by the city's Black community.

Lexipol LLC, a consulting firm that drafts policies for thousands of police departments, is behind an “aggressive” effort to stiffen police resistance to reform, say two University of California law professors.

Black lawmakers are teaming up with Black law enforcement agents to try to eliminate white supremacy from police departments across the country. On

Premier source of news and information on solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.

For the redrawing of voting maps, some states are making a little-known change to their census numbers that is expected to shift political power away from rural, predominantly white prison towns.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors says the demand to defund law enforcement and reinvest the money in black communities is what can achieve justice for black Americans.

Five years after Black Lives Matter coalesced into a national movement for social and racial justice, co-founder Patrisse Cullors reflects on the group's progress and impact.

In an exclusive interview with NPR, Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar outlines new measures the popular neighborhood app is taking to address reports of racial profiling and censorship on the platform.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kimberlé Crenshaw, co-founder of the Say Her Name campaign, about how the Black Lives Matter movement can be more inclusive of Black women.

Paul Austin and Tenisha Tate-Austin alleged that an appraiser undervalued their home by nearly $500,000. They got a higher appraisal after they removed evidence that a Black family lived in the home.

The annual report says instances of harassment, assault and propaganda are all on the rise. It warns public officials and social media stars have helped normalize longstanding antisemitic tropes.

"Chief justices identify ways to implement reforms as part of modernization efforts"